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Katilian on 20 August 2007
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Sqrl said:
Katilian said:

Monitor: You can get a nice monitor for $120 but if you want a very nice monitor you can get 22" monitors with 2000:1 contrast ratio and 2ms responce times for around $200-250. Lets just call this $250.


I'm curious, are there any 22" monitors on the market that do 1920x1200? I can't say I've looked that much, but when I purchased my 24" screen, all the 22" monitors I looked at were only 1680x1050.


There aren't any 22" 1920x1200 that I can find, but there are plenty of 24"+ if your wallet can bear the $500 price tag. But I honestly am not sure the boost in native resolution is all that worth it since 1680x1050 is fairly close to 1920x1080.

I would honestly only go past 1680x1050 if you have some sort of 8800 SLI setup, but thats just me I suppose.


I'll agree that the boost probably isn't worth it for gaming unless you have lots of extra cash around. My reasons for going to 24" were not gaming related in the slightest. My main issue with going to that is my previous setup was 2x17" running at 1280x1024. Now that I am only running a single monitor, 1680x1050 would lose too much of the previous realestate I was used to (although I must admit I'm still outright missing having two monitors...)

My other primary reason was I was after a monitor with component inputs as well (since I use it as my tv too). The only smaller LCD with component inputs I've seen is a 21" by Samsung. 

That all said, I run a lot of newer games in 1280x800 anyhow, because I've only got a 7900GS...